The report on that incident says there was a hardware modification to make this impossible, to be incorporated before Jan 2023.
(It also says this happened to Boeing in 2018 and they ignored it, of course)
(It also says this happened to Boeing in 2018 and they ignored it, of course)
I'm actually serious, it seems to me they resist these kind of short-term helpers that would save lots of injuries.
Meanwhile the sharpie would take 1 minute.
And eventually be missed/ignored by a rushed ground tech and fail again.
Other than making it easier to blame someone, labeling is just a short term interim fix for such things. You design it to be physically impossible or as close to that as possible.
Been there, done that in much less high stakes environments. Upping the training, documentation, and labeling simply makes the mistakes happen less often for a physical process obviously prone to a common mistake.
Sure as an immediate airworthiness directive giant bright lettering is a great immediate “this month” fix. Certainly not a permanent one though.
If you make a hole multiple things can be fit into, eventually someone will try.